Sermon on the Mount | Blessed | Matthew 5:1-12 | Week 1

We are starting a new series that we'll be in all summer, where we're going to be exploring one of the most impactful, significant, beautiful messages ever given.  It's called the Sermon on the Mount, and you can open your Bibles to Matthew 5, where you'll find it.  

Over the last few weeks, throughout our nation, we've been in a season that we affectionately refer to as graduation season.  In graduations, you have a few pieces of pageantry, right, where it signifies that a person is moving from one season to another, from high school to beyond high school, and college to beyond college.  We had a preschooler that graduated and he's moving into kindergarten, which is a pretty huge accomplishment for him.  But along with the pageantry, there's also typically a speech.  There's some words said and it's intended to be motivational, sort of Chris Farley motivational, right?  Like, you can take the world and you can wrap it around your hand and put it in your pocket. . . . .that type of a speech.  I started to wonder, "Why can't I remember any of the speeches from the graduations I've been involved in?"  They were so magical and inspirational [at the time].  I can't remember any of the ones I've been involved in...